| Adinnieken said: In a worse case scenario, let's say The PS4 gets hacked over the next year, and as a result the pirating of PS4 games becomes rampant. Sony's passive DRM is compromised, disc copying possible. Sony doesn't have a solution to this problem ready. Developers and third-parties, seeing their work get stolen and distributed without their control implement various active DRM solutions. Some stringent, requiring constant contact with the server and no offline play at all, others a bit more user friendly. Some allow for resale, others don't. Some allow for rental, other's don't. Now the PS4 is no better or open than a PC and worse than the Xbox One. |
Don't use the piracy crutch, both the PS3 and 360 where hacked, and in the 360's case years ago and neither system suffer worldwide cascade failure, in fact it is barely noticeable in the key market and only appear as a fringe issue in under preveleged country were games can still cost far more money than the average joe can fork out.
And as of the obseletion of the physical medium? What rubbish, do you honestly expect physical medium to dissapear overnight? Look up the purchase habbit of Music and Movie in the US, there is a definite trend towards digital but even after Apple busted open the gate of digital dstribution all the way back in 2001, physical album is still the market leader over digital.
For the entire lifecycle of the PS4-XboxOne, it would be an extremely easy prediction to say that physical game is not going away... it will definitely become less dominate but in a decades time retail and physical game will still play a pivotal role in the success and failure of video games, you can count on that.
And as for Microsoft not being in a bad spot? Take a look back at the disastrous launch of the PS3, its predecessor was market leader but it came of the gate like a bag of limp noodle, no games, disatrous PR, shit services and an attitude that stank to high heaven. They eventually manage to claw their way out of a hole but the lost of market share was massive.
Given that the so call digital age XboxOne has received an equally disastrous round of PR bombing and is more expensive than the PS4 to boot, Microsoft is already having to fight an uphill battle to convince consumer that their product is a value-added proposition, the same shit Sony did and they were in a MUCH strong position with respect to brand name, I cannot picture them gaining market share in the short term, and in the gaming business the early adopter in the first few years matters.
Microsoft is not gaining market share with these stunts, they're losing them, Europe should have been the battle ground, with US being the home turf, but instead of taking the fight to Sony, MS is basically given half of europe the middle finger and telling them to buy the PS4, and on top of that, they have not produce the so call value-added proposition to entice these market, they're preaching to the US and UK only, the stronghold were they have been winning year after year, and despite this, they're loosing ground in the core demographic because they keep fucking up their PR with statement almost AIMED to infuriate core gamers.
Microsoft jumped the gun. Just like the PS3 and the Dreamcast, the tech / service they're trying to introduce is simply not what the consumer need or want anytime soon. The XboxOne should have been a next-next-gen thing.
